Re: [Caml-list] Memory allocation nano-benchmark.

[John Prevost <j.prevost@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:15:10 +0100, Christian Szegedy
<szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Let us look at another example where ocaml not really shines:

Er.  Or perhaps we should not?  I could not imagine writing anything
even vaguely similar to these examples in either C or in O'Caml.

Not to mention the serious problem with evaluating memory allocation
overhead by comparing programs that allocate massive amounts of memory
but never use or release any of it.

In a program that allocates many small short-lived chunks of memory, I
suspect you will find that *in practice*, O'Caml performs better than
C.

In a program that allocates one very large chunk of memory, I suspect
you will find that both C and O'Caml do a lot better when... you
allocated as one very large chunk of memory (or, if need be, a *tiny*
number of large chunks) instead of as many small chunks of memory.

John.